my 22nd year celebration

Birthdays just make you feel so special. The phone calls, the texts, the cards, the facebook messages all made me feel awesome!
Cameron started the b-day off with making me breakfast! He made me some yummy eggs on toast with cheese and potatoes. After, I opened my b-day presents sent via mail and I got ready and went to work. I didn't want to tell Jeanne, my boss, so we went downtown for shopping and her appointment. She ended up figuring out that it was my birthday so she insisted on buying me a birthday cake. I chose an ice cream cake from Baskin Robins and she also got Subway sandwiches for cam and I for dinner. She also decided that since her birthday was only a few days away from mine that just the two of us would go to a very fancy dinner on Monday to celebrate both of our birthdays.
I didn't get back from our errands downtown till late so Cameron and I decided to celebrate the rest on Saturday. Cameron picked some beautiful roses for me and wrote me the sweetest card that made me cry.
On Friday, I woke up to a birthday present that was left for me on my door step... A PINK BODY BOARD!!! My wonderful friend Natalie Vilos gave it to me for my birthday and it's the prettiest body board you ever did see!! She also left me a very thoughtful card. I love my friend Natalie!!!!!! That was so extremely nice and thoughtful of her. I've wanted to body board for a while but I always make the excuse that I don't have one and now I can't. I'm excited to go out and hopefully Cameron won't be too embarrassed of his "sponger" wife. :)
So Saturday, Cameron and I celebrated together in Honolulu. First Cameron went surfing for a bit with Mark and then Cameron and I went to lunch at my favorite place, Mariposa in Neiman Marcus at Ala Moana. It's such a great restaurant that you leave feeling fresh and well feed, not overly stuffed and sick. We also got to sit on the balcony with the ocean view... always a plus. After lunch, Cameron so kindly shopped with me (thank you grandma and Rondos for gift cards!!) for a long time. He's such a great sport and doesn't complain. I got some really cute stuff!
Then we grabbed a few slices of our favorite cheesecake from the cheesecake factory that we both couldn't finish.
Our last stop for the day was at Best Buy for Cameron's gift to me! We've been without a camera since February and I feel like our life has flown by undocumented!! Sooo... I got a new camera!!! A really nice one! (or at least really nice for me!) I got the Canon Rebel and I'm so excited to learn everything about it! I wanted something that took really nice photos ( I like Canon) and I think this is the most basic digital SLR. I thought this would be a great place to have a nice camera where we can take great pictures and also a great camera to capture daily life. I'm so excited to use it and to post lots of picture on our blog! :)
This birthday was like a 3 day celebration and it was great! I feel so special and loved!